6 THE MYIVERSITY 01 MICHIGAN DAILY SEEM CONFIDENT. Published Daily (Sundays excepted) during the Speakers at Last Night's Mass Meet- College year, at ing Appear to Expect Victorj. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Enthusiasm for the team and for its OrFicE: The Inland Press, Henning Block. individual members ran at a high point Both Phones. 147. last night at the Gym when the stu- MANAGING EDITOR. dents gathered in a mass meeting, to. F. ENGELARD,'01 L. give the men a send off and cheer them BUSINESS MANAGER. on for the game tomorrow. In the O. H. HANs.'00 L. neighborhood of eight hundred persons EDITORS. one hundred of whom were co-eds were ATIILETICS, . . . G. D. HUDNUTT,'01 E present and the cheering was loud and T. R. WOODROW, '100 L. A. H. McDoucALL,'0 E prolonged. The men of the crowd &.G BaawNE,.'Oi.E. J. B. Waa, 'O, A.J.M NEsa'0a2co, . . B.WooDa'cl, found seats upon the floor and after L. J. MONTGOMERY,'00, W. D. HICxEY, '00 M, __ the band played "The Victors," Pres. Day of the athletic association turned the meeting over to the crowd and let them call upon whom they would. The subscription price of the DAILY is $2.50 for Director Baird was the first to re- the college year, with a regular delivery before spond. He said: "Wisconsin is the noon each day. Notices, co aun aications, and other matter intended for publication must be most partisan of the Western Universi- handed in at the DAILY ofice beforeS 8 p.i ., or mailed to the editor before 3 p, in, of the day ties and exhibits more enthusiasm over previous to that on which they are expected to appear, their athletic teams than does any Subscriptions may be left at the DAILY office, other body of students in this part of Aeyer's, or Stofllet's newstand, or with Business ofustusthis part or Manager. Subscribers will confer a favor by the country. We most do as welt or reporting promptly at this office any failure of better than they and can only do so carriers to deliver paper. All changes in advertisin matter eaust be in by everyone of you turning out and ac- the office by 4 p. im. on the clay previous to that companying the team on its trip. You on which they are to avuear- will be needed there to yell for the THe next regular edition of The team and to shaw Wisconsin that we Daily will appear on Monday, Nov. 4. tea, of Miehigan, can root. While I believe we have the strongest team and This issue of The Daily is devoted to can win we have a tough proposition to football the greatestland most absorb- encounter." plays. They will be much more effec- tive sprung as a surprise. About our chances of winning, I know ours is a U. of M. team and you know what that means. You will not be disappointed. If we had had Pennsylvania at De- troit we could havse beaten them by twenty points. Dr. Brooks, of Har- vard, who was umpire of that game wrote to a friend of mine that he never sawe a team that played a more gentle- manly game than Michigan did and when you get that from an eastern man it means something." Prof. Trueblood upon being called upon said: "The faculty are becoming more and more interested in the out of door sports of the University, and the great games which, were practically victories, with Harvard and Pennyl- vania have done much to bring about this condition of affairs. To the men on the team I will say the eyes of the college world will be centered upon you Thursday. The honors you win are not for the team alone, but for the University of Michigan." Coach Allen spoke briefly of the need of systematic cheering and of its m- portance in the winning of games. At the close nine rousing Rah's were giv- en for each man on the team, followed by the 'Varsity yell and the "Who Can" as a tiger. Scrubs and College 'lie. As was anticipated much sport was derived from the game yesterday after- noon between the college and scrub elevens. Aside from the fun derived the game had much general interest from the fact that it offered a chaace to compare the relative merits of the various candidates who have :aot yet secured 'Varsity honors. It is from these men that next year's team wvill for the most part be made up and yesterday's play had added interest on this account. Coach "Bill" Allen evidently showed good judgement in the picking of. the elevens for after nearly thirty minutes of play neither side had scored. It was a good game and snappy. Plainwuell o8. Pontiac. The final game for the championship of the high schools of the state will be played tomorrow afternoon at the ath- letic field. Plainwell, having defeated Escanaba in the western section will play Pontiac who cleaned up last Sat- urday on Bay City for the champion- ship of the eastern section The game will be called at half past on Chicago Ground. Tomorrow's game is expected to dem- onstrate very conclusively that Chi- cago is not the special preserves of Stagg and the Univiersity of Chicago team for greater interest is manifested in te Michigan-Wisconsin contest and undoubtetdly the attendance at this gaae will be the greater of the two. in looking over the past history of Michigan's teams it will be found that they played gasses in Chicago before the existance of Chicago university, in fact they were pioneers in football in the west and the early games had to be played with university clubs consist- lng of Chicago and who had played oil ceacsern teams. That they did not al- woos win is shown by tte brief ac- count below regarding the games Mich- igan has played in Chicago in years past. ine first game of the series was one ot football with Racine College. It was played on the old "White Stock- ing" baseball grounds, Chicago, on Decoration Day, in 1879, the score re- sulting 11 to 0 in Michigan's favor. No more games were played in the "Windy City" until on Thanksgiving Day, in 1887, when the Harvard school eleven was the only team to be found that would try conclusions with the Uni- versity men. They were defeated by a large score, just what has never been recorded. The following year the Uni- versity Club, above mentioned, was played on Thanksgiving Day and the stars from the east were successful winning by four touchdowns to one. The following year the same club won again; the score is unknown. It was not until the fall of '93 that the next Chicago game took place and then Michigan's opponents were the pupils of Prof. Stagg of Chicago University. Two games were played, one in which we lost 10 to 6, but the other was ours by 28 to 10. This was the year when Wisconsin came to Ann Arbor and won out. In the following year the U. of C. was barely defeated, the score being 6 to 4. In '95 with Keene Fitzpatrick in charge of the men the winning was more sure as the score 12 to 0 testifies. In '96 and '97 the story was different for a man by the name of Hersch- berger kicked goals for Chicago and the scores 7 to 6 and 21to 12 are only too well known. But still better known is the result of last year's Chicago game when Michigan won the clear title to "Champions of the West" by defeating the University of Chicago 11 to 10. Northwestern was also played last year in Evanston and must be counted among the games played in Chicago. The margin was narrow but we won 6 to 5. ing of college sports. Before this the final game of the season all is prepa- ration for the contest which is to de- cide which university is to hold lead- ing place in the western football world. All the University today looks to the team which is to struggle for Michi- gan's glory. Those who are compelled to remain at home and those who ac- company the team are in loyal sym- pathy. Michigan hopes to win but whether she wins or losses she will take the result in the spirit befitting a great university contesting with another. The team will do all it is capable of and will, whatever the out- come, receive the support of all loyal hearts at Michigan. Athletic Board Holds an Informal Meeting. The athletic board held a short in- formal session last night before the mass meeting. The treasurer reported that the association had a deficit of $66.16. It was decided to improve the part of the athletic field south of the pres- ent diamond and gridiron. These im- provements, leveling and sodding the field, will necessitate an expenditure of nearly $500. The work was placed un- der the discretion of the Graduate Director. The improvements will be commenced at once, so that a good start may be made before the cold weather sets in. The expenses of the team to Chicago will amount to in the neighborhood of! $1,000. The expenses of the Interscho- lastic game here on the same day will be $50. Of these two sums, $900 is needed immediately and the treasurer was instructed to borrow that amount. Miss Nina A. Wilber, '98, is visiting Miss Gertrude Palmer for a few days. Percy W. Jones, '99, now instructor in the Detroit School for Boys, was ex- cused from his classes today so as to attend the game tomorrow. The joists for the sub-cellar of the Homeopathic hospital arrived yester- day afternoon and were drawn to the ground this morning. At noon Koch Bros. started work with all their ma- sons. No more delay is now expected, as the balance of the joists will arrive from the south in time to continue the mason work after the walls are up to the grade line. The wires and nails are both with orders to hurry up the lumber. Captain Steckle was called for but lhad made his escape and the crowd passed on to Snow, who spoke briefly saying: "We don't intend to loose at Chicago on Thursday and I think we will have a celebration after Thanks- giving when we can have more and longer speeches." France was the next man up and he said: "I feel we can win from Wis- consin and will do so if the crowd comes along and backs the boys up with good solid cheering. Yelling helps a lot in a game and the more we have of it the better it will be." Juttner fol- lowed him in much the same strain saying: "if you only come out and cheer on Thursday we can and will win. Wisconsin bases all her hopes on a single man, O'Dea, but we have eleven men and con do them. You will have a chance so come and cheer for the team. "Chick" McDonald was next called up. He spoke as follows: "There was never a more dissappointed crowd than that which came back from Pennsyl- vania. We had the better team, but that is past now. We have done all we can in preparation to win fron Wisconsin. The men are determined to win and what they need is the moral support of the students. Michigan has the spirit and no matter if we should get the worst of it come out good and strong with the "Michigan! Michigan! Rah' Rah!! Rah!!!" Coach Fitzpatrick when asked to re- spond did so to quite a length and gladdened the hearts of the Michigan undergraduates who are always happy to hear from "Fitz" on matters ath- letic. He said: "Eastern colleges can talk of their enthusiasm for their teanms but none of them would have done what Michigan did when the team re- turned from Philadelphia, wait until after three o'clock in the morning to greet the men. The last two weeks we have had secret practice but were sorry that it must be so. We would like to let the students in to see what the team is doing but there are men here from nearly every other college in the country and it would not have been at all safe to let them all in. For we have been working up some new plays to use against Wisconsin, and even a suggestion of their nature to our opponents would offer them a chance to think up new methods of defense with which to meet our new E 1 7 I 1 i c two and admission will be had upon I the tickets used at the Opera House in the morning where the reports from the Wisconsin game will be received. 'the price of these tickets will be twenty-five cents. The game promises to be close and is of interest to univer- sity people because this plan of inter- high school athletics is designed to develope interest in the state univer- sity in the city of which the final championship game is to be played. O. H. Hans, of the signal service, is already in Chicago seeing to the plac- ing of his bulletin board upon which the progress of the game will be re- ported tomorrow. He plans to have a large clock running in connection with the board. It will be stopped when- ever time is taken out so that everyone may see just how much time there is left to play. A team calling themselves the Ann Arbor Athletic Association team and formed about some four or five mem- bers of the 1901 Law team as a neu- eleus plan on going to Detroit tomor- row to play the D. A. C. reserves. The annual athletic conference of the seven universities, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Illinois, Chicago, Purdue, North- western and Minnesota will be held Friday morning at 10:30 at the Chicago Beach Hotel. Prof. A. H. Pattengill will be Michigan's representative at the meeting. Clifford L. Niles, '99, stopped over a few days on his way home from New York. He accompanied the team to Chicago. ATHENS THEATRE SfITURDIY DEG. 12 LNCOLN J. 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